Thinking Quotes by Torbjorn Tannsjo

Torbjorn Tannsjo

I have been brought up in a culture where capital punishment is indeed anathema. I have always thought of myself as a principled opponent to capital punishment. However, when thinking about how the topic is handled in other cultures, in particular the American, Russian and Chinese ones, I have realised that my own tack on the issue was utterly superficial.

Other Cultures

Punishment

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Torbjorn Tannsjo

It is obvious, I think, that national democracy withers. This has to do with globalisation.

Democracy

Obvious

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Torbjorn Tannsjo

It is true (independently of our conceptualisation) that it is wrong to inflict pain on a sentient creature for no reason (she doesn’t deserve it, I haven’t promised to do it, it is not helpful to this creature or to anyone else if I do it, and so forth). But if this is a truth, existing independently of our conceptualisation, then at least one moral fact (this one) exists and moral realism is true. We have to accept this, I submit, unless we can find strong reasons to think otherwise.

Pain

Strong

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Torbjorn Tannsjo

It is true that it feels very differently to enjoy a good meal, taking part in an interesting conversation, or to think of how successful your children are. Suppose we do all these things at a particular time. How happy are we at the time? We do not need to calculate the value of each such feelings on any singular scale to answer this question. We need not see our happiness at the time as a mathematical function of these items. It is rather that all these experiences, together with many other factors, causally puts us at the time at a certain level of happiness, i.e. in a certain mood.

Children

Successful

Thinking

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Abortion

Answers

Becoming

Believe

Block

Children

Chinese

Country

Democracy

Ethics

Explanation

Fate

Giving

Hedonistic

Humans

Ideas

Innocent

Killing

Late

Left

Left Wing

Letting Go

Liberty

Long

May

Mean

Military

Moral

Murder

Nihilism

Obvious

Ordinary

Other Cultures

Pain

Party

People

Periods

Perspective

Philosophy

Political Opinions

Practice

Principles

Punishment

Race

Realist

Reality

Rights

Strong

Successful

Teens

Temptation

Thinking

Together

Utilitarian

Utilitarianism

World

Thinking Quotes by Torbjorn Tannsjo

It is obvious, I think, that national democracy withers. This has to do with globalisation.

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